Hardware and Software Engineering
Posts about electronic hardware design, debug and functionality.
The other day my niece asked me why bicycle headlights sometimes flash during the day. I explained that they need to be much brighter during the day than at night to be seen from a distance, and that by flashing they get noticed more easily and also save a lot of power so the batteries …
A client called that I hadn’t heard from for several years. They had a new flagship product line that had some major problems. Customers were furious, all the original programmers had left, and something needed to be done fast. So they asked if I could come out for six months or so to straighten things out…
Hewlett-Packard founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard are two of my heroes. Their company was literally started in a garage and became one of the first big success stories of Silicon Valley. Steve Jobs also admired them and had a summer job at HP when he was a kid. So I was very excited when …